Exaggeration or fabrication of a story, regarding somebody other than the tale bearer, in the absence of this person who is being discussed - for the malicious purpouse of demeaning, slandering or tarnisging this person's reputation.

I used to be good friends with this bitch for like 6 years, and when we had a fallout, she went around gossiping all of my personal shit to people behind my back.

They spent the lunch hour discussing ways to dispute them and put the rumors to rest. They knew denial would probably make the rumors worse. They decided to laugh them off as if they were the silliest things anyone had ever said. "After all," said Diana, "What is gossip except Garbage Of Stupid Silly Ignorant People?"

An event between loose mouthed assholes, that happens as soon as you get into highschool. People start talkin, before you even get a chance to say anything, then ruins your reputation, and follows you all the way to your deathbed. It never ends.

"psst did you hear....."
"like omg, lets go up to her and make fun of her"
"i heard what you did over the summer you slut!"

Something nasty people do when they are bored, have no life, or are really stupid. It's nasty because a lot of the time you never hear about it and people are way too PC to admit and are nice to you to your face, but spread nasty gossip behind your back. And you never know what happened when someone suddenly hates you for no reason or some people start threatening you for no reason. That's because some loser(s) with no life or brain decided to gossip because they're too stupid to have any hobbies, a real social life, or any shread of concience whatsoever.

Gossip is what happens before you get a knife in your back.

"You're a gossiping wench and I hope the toilet eats you next time you take one of your rauncy diareah shits"
"Get a new hobby, try nitting, cutting yourself just stop gossiping. It causes cancer."